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Hiku on 30 July 2024
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LegitHyperbole said:
Hiku said:

No. But by who are you embarassed? People you know, or strangers?
Strangers don't know you, and will probably never think of you again after passing by.
While people who know you should be able to accept you for who you are.

For me it's not only that I don't mind anyone having the opinion that what I do is childish. I have way more important things to consider in life than that.
But it's also that I feel bad for anyone that thinks that way. It means they are probably limiting their own enjoyment by believing in this concept that something is "too childish". If you enjoy it, you enjoy it. What's the problem?

Both. My sister was around while I playing Minecraft not long ago and I was terribly embarrassed. She doesn't know enough about gaming to know that Minecraft is not just for kids...it's for us autistic people too. Lol. I joke. She doesn't know games can be for all ages.  But having people pass by the TV room while I'm playing as a child with animal ears in Ni no Kuni 2 and they are going on about the Kingdom of "Ding dong dell" and "higgledies" with a narrator out of a kids film is, as someone said above hurting the fragility of my manhood. I know it shouldn't but I find myself backing out to the ps4 home screen. I hope to overcome the uncomfortableness as I'm running low on content without a ps5 and some of these kid friendly games look great at there core gameplay plus they're cozy AF and I'm half sick of depressing worlds these days. 

I wouldn't say that you shouldn't feel that way. I just don't, and the fact that you do may be because you're in a different state of mind. Which isn't neccesarily better or worse. Or maybe you haven't experienced something that's so negative that it would make you not care about this the way you do. And that's a good thing if you've avoided an experience like that. Etc.

If your sister likes Disney, or animated movies from Pixar, those are usually a good example of things that can appear childish, but are also commonly made to be entertaining for adults.

I know there are people who think that people need to "grow up" or out of certain things.
But I think that in most cases, if you find entertainment in something, then that's just a good thing. And that part of our inner child never really goes away.